Sunday, August 17, 2014

Mountainside Meal

We dined with the deer today on our picnic at North Bend State Park in Union, West Virginia. As we ate on a mountainside table, we watched 3 deer grazing in front of us. Our menu today included:

Crab and Fresh Produce Salad

Plum Cake with Ricotta Cheese

A can of crabmeat is expensive, but I cut the 1 pound crabmeat into 3 and froze 2 servings for a later date. Here's what I placed in the salad:

Crab and Fresh Produce Salad

(Serves 2)

1/2 Medium Cantaloupe, seeded and sliced in 1/2 moons pieces

1/2 each Yellow and Zucchini Summer Squash, sliced in coins and steamed for 1 minute

1 Pickling Cucumber, sliced in coins

1 Carrot, peeled and sliced in coins

8 Grape Tomatoes, sliced

1 Yellow Pepper, sliced in coins

5 oz. Crabmeat

1/4 cup Fresh Herbs (Basil, Cilantro and Tarragon)

Lime Dressing

1 Tbsp. Fresh Lime Juice

1 tsp. Grated Lime Rind

2 tsp. Canola Oil

1 tsp. Honey

I posted the Plum Cake recipe last night. Since I couldn't pack ice cream or whipped cream in a picnic basket, I packed ricotta cheese to garnish. The fun part was shaving the nutmeg bean at tableside. The finale was delicious.

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After years of planning meals for 1000+, I'm having a ton of fun planning meals for two. I remain active in the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, teach in the lifelong learning program and conduct farmers market culinary demos during the outdoors season.